FOI - self-build and custom housebuilding register

As you may be aware, from 1 April 2016 the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (as amended by the Housing and Planning Act 2016) requires all relevant authorities to keep a register of individuals and associations of individuals who wish to acquire serviced plots of land to build their own homes in the authority’s area and to have regard to those registers in carrying out their planning, housing, land disposal and regeneration functions. Section 1(2) of the 2015 Act also requires each relevant authority to publicise its register.

In this context, I am requesting the following information from your authority:

If your authority holds a self-build and custom housebuilding register, whether it has publicised such a register and, if so, how this has been done (eg. local media, council webpage);

How many permissioned serviced building plots have been made available between 1 April and 31 October 2016 to meet the demand on the register; and,

Whether your authority has a local policy to facilitate self-build and custom housebuilding in your adopted local development plan, or is intending to introduce one.

and

1. the number of individuals listed on the register as at 31 October 2016;

2. the number of associations of individuals (groups) listed on the register as at 31 October 2016; and

3. if there are groups listed on the register, the total number of people in those groups as at 31 October 2016.